xfs_repair hangs at Phase 6

Riku Paananen riku.paananen at helsinki.fi
Mon Sep 14 00:08:45 CDT 2009


>> I have a 39TB xfs filesystem in a SAN that got corrupted. The reasons 
>> for the corruption are unclear. I've been trying to fix it using 
>> xfs_repair but the repair operation always hangs at Phase 6 
>> "traversing filesystem ...".
> Can you try again with -P?
> If that fails can you try again with -P -o bhashsize=1024 ?

With -P -o bhashsize=1024 it finally finished.

Thanks a lot.


Riku Paananen




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